Rowling wrote this book along with
Quidditch Through the Ages for charity.
All proceeds will be donated to
Comic Relief.
Click on the book cover to the right to order these two books through
Amazon.com.

The book is designed to look like a
Hogwarts textbook. It has slash
marks on it as if some fierce creature has taken a swipe at the book with its
claws. There is a sticker on the front with the words "Property of:"
followed by Harry Potter's signature.

There are scribbled notes in the book, scrawled there by
Harry and his friends.

On the inside front cover is a bookplate: This book belongs to:"
followed by Harry's signature again.
Underneath that is written the following exchange:

"shared by Ron Weasley because his
fell apart"
"why don't you buy a new one then?"
"write on your own book
Hermione"
"you bought all those
dungbombs
on Saturday.you should have bought a new book instead."
"Dungbombsrule"

On the title page is a game of hangman between
Harry and
Ron, who has lost the game. The word,
which he didn't get, was
ACROMANTULA. Next to
the little stick figure is a drawing of a spider with the words "you die
Weasley." There is also a game of
tic-tac-toe and the words "Harry
loves Moaning Myrtle."

On the index page is written:
"CHUDLEY CANNONS"
under which is written "write a decent team in my book for a change
Weasley"

author's comments about the book:

"When
Comic Relief asked
me to write something I thought I would just love to write the two books,"
Ms Rowling told the BBC. "I have always supported
Comic Relief...I
did two because I had two in my head and I couldn't really decide between
Quidditch and Fantastic Beasts,
so I decided to do them both."

Q: Why were there no pictures in your books?
A: Actually, I drew some pictures for book one
and the publishers didn't want them. They felt that putting in pictures
implied the books were for younger children but I drew the pics for
Quidditch Through the Ages and
Fantastic Beasts, so that was fun.

Why did you want to write
Quidditch Through The Ages and
Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them?
They are two titles that appear in the novels -
Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them is a book that
Harry buys to go to
Hogwarts so it's one of his
school textbooks and
Quidditch Through The Ages
is a library title. I always write more than I need for the books so bits of
them were just written for my own fun. So when
Comic Relief
asked me to write something I thought I would just love to write them, I
just thought it would be so much fun and I was completely correct. It was
more fun than I've had writing the others.

How did these books come about?
I got a letter from Richard Curtis who started
Comic Relief
saying would you consider writing us a short story? And then he cunningly
said something like "I'm sure you won't, we'll still love your books,
even if you don't but just thought we'd ask". Which is a very clever
way of asking someone to do something. But I didn't really need much
persuasion as I have always supported
Comic Relief,
and I think they do fantastic work, so I wrote back and said yes
but I'm not good at short stories particularly not short Harry stories
I tend to ramble on, so how would it be if I wrote a couple of the titles
that appear by title in the novels so that's how it all started. And I
decided to do two because just because I had two in my head and I couldn't
really decide between Fantastic Beasts and
Quidditch so I thought
we'll do them both.

In the UK, almost all the money raised is going to
Comic Relief (UK).
Is the same thing happening in other countries, where
Comic Relief
is not so well known?
Yes, they will be happening in other countries. Money raised outside
Britain will be going into an international fund to help children in
some of the poorest countries in the world, and it's been absolutely
miraculous that everyone who would usually take a cut from the production
of a book to give their services for free. So almost all the money from the
books will be going into these funds.

When people buy the book, how much money will be going to charity?
Everyone who would usually take a cut from the book is giving their services
for free and they're donating what would've been their proceeds to
Comic Relief
which means booksellers, paper suppliers, publishers and my royalties,
everything will be going to
Comic Relief,
over 80% of the cover price will be going to
Comic Relief.

How much money are you hoping to raise?
As much as possible loads, millions and millions. The important thing to
remember is that for every book bought it will make a difference a real
difference in someone's life, someone living in poverty. So the important
thing to remember is that by buying one book, parting with your pocket money
you will make a real difference to someone probably of your age living
elsewhere in the world.

What do you like most about
Comic Relief UK?
Lots of things I like about Comic Relief.
They have a Golden Pound principle which means that every pound that's given
to them, or any money that's given to them, will go directly to the causes
involved. And it's fun. There is something wonderful about the idea that
laughter should be used to combat real tragedy and poverty and suffering and
it just is the most wonderful thing.

Did the books take you a long time to write?
Not a very long time; I wrote them right after I'd finished
Book 4, so compared to
Book 4, which as you probably know is a
very, very long book, they didn't take long at all.

One of them has extra stuff written in it by
Harry. What's all that about?
That's Harry and
Ron graffiti-ing the book, as you do to
your schoolbooks. You do doodle on them, I always wrote all over mine.
Teachers reading this will not be happy that I'm saying it but you do, don't
you? So they've just scribbled things on them and said rude things in them,
the name of their favourite Quidditch team
and stuff in the book.